schappim - Slashdot User

Comment Re:One side of the story (Score 5, Interesting) 710

by schappim on Monday March 17, 2014 @05:26AM (#46503769) Attached to: Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment

They haven't kept entirely silent. They put a post on the issue up here: https://github.com/blog/1800-u...

Comment I've seen this before! (Score 1) 49

by schappim on Friday July 19, 2013 @06:54PM (#44333361) Attached to: Home Automation Kit Includes Arduino, RasPi Dev Boards

It looks pretty similar to the Ninja Block ninjablocks.com and Smart Things platforms (both of which have expansion boards for Arduino / Pi).

Comment Re: This is stupid (Score 3, Informative) 407

by schappim on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @10:32AM (#44165435) Attached to: NSA Backdoors In Open Source and Open Standards: What Are the Odds?

It's Romansh not Romanian !!! a Rhaeto-Romance language descended from the Vulgar Latin spoken by the Roman era occupiers of the region. It is closely related to French, Occitan, and Lombard, as well as the other Romance languages to a lesser extent.

Submission + - How the 'internet of things' can spark an open source community (networkworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 03, 2013 @04:43PM

An anonymous reader writes: Ninja Blocks puts a power into the hands of developers and users that has never been realized before, and which could be the genesis of an open source community of makers.

Ninja Blocks just put its June manufacturing run on sale after selling out its last five months of production. The Ninja Block is open source hardware and software for connecting the analog world of sensors and actuators with web services. It’s is an off-the-shelf way for people with many different skill sets to gain experience building the "internet-of-things."

Comment Try the Open Source Ninja Block for security (Score 1) 272

by schappim on Sunday February 17, 2013 @04:01AM (#42926391) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive SOHO Crime Deterrence and Monitoring?

Given you put Arduino like options on the table you should checkout the Open Source Ninja Block ( http://ninjablocks.com/products/ninja-blocks-kit ). The Ninja Block (with it's free cloud service) lets you create rules that use it's sensors to send you alerts (via SMS/Email/Social Network etc). For example "if motion is detected, send an SMS". Included in the kit is a Motion Sensor and door/window contact sensor. You can get more sensors off the Ninja Blocks website. The Ninja Blocks community seems to also be growing strong: http://forums.ninjablocks.com/ If you want to tinker more, inside the Ninja Block is an Arduino compatible uC and an embedded Linux computer running Ubuntu.

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